App Store submission process overview

The complete submission process for an iPhone App is beyond the scope of this book. There are many good resource on the internet that will guide you through this if you have never done it before, and this chapter will assume that you have all the information and resources needed for the iPhone app itself in order to focus on those additional preparations that are necessitated by the addition of an Apple Watch App to the main companion app.

We will then present a very succinct summary of the processes involved in preparing your app for upload to the App Store, once again concentrating on the WatchKit app's requirements beyond those of a purely iPhone orientated iOS app.

Here again, a certain degree of patience is going to be of great benefit. The first time you go through this stuff, it can seem like a long, drawn out, and complicated series of steps. Moreover, it is a process that evolves through time; I think it is fair to say that most developers find...